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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford Undated Prelims Mathematics III resit 7 c iii Solution by
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The least-squares estimators depend only on the observed responses and design, so the formulas in i still hold. Their variances and covariance need only the error covariance matrix, now . ThereforeFor example the first formula follows from , and the second from . The formulas remain the same as before with ; this calculation does not establish independence or a normal distribution for the estimators.
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